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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817406703321

Autore

Pizzato Mark <1960->

Titolo

Ghosts of theatre and cinema in the brain / / Mark Pizzato

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY, : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006

ISBN

1-281-36991-8

9786611369910

1-4039-8329-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2006.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XI, 323 p.)

Collana

Palgrave studies in theatre and performance history

Disciplina

809.2/9375

Soggetti

Ghosts in literature

Drama - History and criticism

Ghosts in motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Will the Real Cogito Please Stand Up? -- 2 Ancient Specters (Prehistoric, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman) -- 3 Phantom Limbs, Unconscious Zombies, and Multiple Selves -- 4 Shakespeare's Roman Shades (Titus Andronicus and Titus) -- 5 Theatrical Elements in the Mind's Eye -- 6 Ghosts of Hamlet Onscreen -- 7 Selective Spirits in Neural Evolution -- 8 Noh Desires and The Others -- 9 Brain Stages -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Sommario/riassunto

Pizzato focuses on the staging of Self and Other as phantom characters inside the brain (in the 'mind's eye', as Hamlet says). He explores the brain's anatomical evolution from animal drives to human consciousness to divine aspirations, through distinctive cultural expressions in stage and screen technologies. MARK PIZZATO is Professor of Theatre and Film at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA. He is the author of Edges of Loss: From Modern Drama to Postmodern Theory (University of Michigan, 1998), Theatres of Human Sacrifice: From Ancient Ritual to Screen Violence (SUNY, 2005), Ghosts of Theatre and Cinema in the Brain (Palgrave, 2006), Inner



Theatres of Good and Evil: The Mind's Staging of Gods, Angels and Devils (McFarland, 2011), and Beast-People Onscreen and in Your Brain (Praeger, 2016). Pizzato also co-edited, with Lisa Perdigao, Death in American Texts and Performances (Routledge, 2016).